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Assertion failure `it != implicitTypes.end()` in wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx::makeTypeUse at contexts.h:1474 (main branch @3ef8d19)
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Description
Summary
An assertion failure is triggered in wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx::makeTypeUse() when parsing malformed WebAssembly input with wasm-emscripten-finalize.
The assertion it != implicitTypes.end() fails when looking up an expected implicit type.
Affected Version
- Branch: main
- Commit: 3ef8d19 (2026-04-21 latest)
- Tool: wasm-emscripten-finalize
- Build type: Debug + AddressSanitizer
Reproduction
mkdir build && cd build
cmake \
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/home/AFLplusplus/afl-clang-fast \
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/home/AFLplusplus/afl-clang-fast++ \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-O0 -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address -Wno-error" \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++20 -O0 -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fsanitize=address -Wno-bitwise-instead-of-logical -Wno-ambiguous-reversed-operator -Wno-error" \
-DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address -no-pie -pthread -ldl -lm" \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
-DBUILD_TESTS=OFF \
-DBUILD_TOOLS=ON \
-DENABLE_BYESAN=OFF \
..
make -j$(nproc)
./wasm-emscripten-finalize -n poc
Error Log
wasm-emscripten-finalize: /home/new-cases/binaryen/latestest-04.21/binaryen-main/src/parser/contexts.h:1474: Result<wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx::TypeUseT> wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx::makeTypeUse(wasm::Index, std::optional<HeapTypeT>, wasm::WATParser::TypeParserCtx<wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx>::ParamsT *, wasm::WATParser::TypeParserCtx<wasm::WATParser::ParseModuleTypesCtx>::ResultsT *): Assertion `it != implicitTypes.end()' failed.
Root Cause
The method makeTypeUse() at contexts.h:1474 expects to find a type entry in implicitTypes,
but the input causes a lookup of a non-existent type, leading to an assertion failure.
Call chain:
wasm-emscripten-finalize parsing → ParseModuleTypesCtx::makeTypeUse() → Assertion it != implicitTypes.end() failed
PoC
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